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One of the unfinished pieces of business from the Cold War is the question of the unification of the Korean Peninsula.
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It’s been more than ten years since the folks at Goldman Sachs dubbed Brazil, Russia, India, and China the BRIC countries, and lately other countries have been trying to glom […]
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The last thing we want to do is water down the teaching of biology because some people don’t recognize that evolution happened.
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Jonathan Zittrain, speaking at the 2012 Nantucket Project, describers how crowdsourcing is being used to solve all kinds of problems, and how it can be used for good and well […]
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Overcoming the myths of happiness might make life seem more complicated, but it’s the only way to stop interfering with our own potential to be happy.
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Daniel Burrus says there are clear ways to predict the future in an uncertain world. You need to unplug yourself from the present and look at examples of linear change […]
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Lawrence Krauss argues for differential pay scales for teachers with advanced training in science and math to accommodate the free market.
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How can we train our brains to think like Sherlock Holmes? This question occupies Konnikova’s book, and her answer can be summed up in one word: mindfulness. Mindfulness is “staying […]
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The most important thing is to feel about things you feel about – should feel about – and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about […]
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The most important thing is to feel about things you feel about – should feel about – and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about […]
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It’s a very handy thing to be a psychopath, says the psychologist Kevin Dutton.
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The old conventional wisdom was the China was manipulating its currency, causing a significant drag on the global economy. That isn’t true anymore.
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The soft skills associated with improv are actually the hard skills because there’s not an equation to be a great leader. There’s not an equation that tells you how to […]
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Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei explains why he continues to fight legal battles in Chinese courts that are rigged against him.
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We have generated a huge amount of information, which is very cheap to collect. But we are now able to see patterns and develop a new understanding of data. This […]
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Michio Kaku says that God could be a mathematician: “The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. That is the […]
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Cass Sunstein presents his “nudge” approach to regulation at the 2012 Nantucket Project.
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The physicist on the spiritual consolations of realizing we’re probably unique in the universe, and not part of some greater plan.
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The physicist argues that our common sense is based on evolutionary imperatives that have less to do with the universe as it is than with what our ancestors needed to […]
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Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen argue why the future will empower the good, not the evil.
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The cornerstone of improvisation around the world is a great two-word phrase called “yes, and.” “Yes” means that you accept everything that’s brought to you, regardless of who brought it […]
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Penn Jillette says there is no such thing as a war on Christmas. And yet, Jillette says we’re leaving out “close to 30 percent of the population of the United […]
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John Hagel says we have designed jobs in the U.S. that tend to be “tightly scripted,” “highly standardized,” that leave no room for “individual initiative or creativity.” In short, these […]
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With the victories for the marijuana legalization initiatives in Colorado and Washington on Election Day 2012, it really presents the White House and the Attorney General with a dilemma.
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Big Think’s chief economist Daniel Altman favors a “gradual solution” to fixing the U.S. debt. Tightening our belt, Altman says, “doesn’t make sense if you can borrow at low interest […]
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Victor Cha says that North Korea’s leadership is not the comic strip version that it is made out to be. As a matter of fact, they are quite rational. We […]
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Here, in a Big Think interview at his Beijing studio, Ai Weiwei discusses the challenges China faces to becoming a truly “great nation.”
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Jack Hidary argues that bonuses should be structured to incentivize innovation, rather than just fulfilling day-to-day activities.
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